I find the younger adult generation that is not really a young adult anymore has an escapism attitude to life that they can shape their own relativity enough that it is different the outer worlds reality.
This a large psychological problem that is a detachment from the greater obvious reality that exist.
It is though partly the economical situation but this is largely do to who their generation is election now is the thing in the last so many years. Only now in resent history has things started to change. The odd thing is how much they seem to want to fight the actual hood that is going on in the economy with this new crazy system they have.